Forest areas are in sharp decline in many parts of Ghana.
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Ghana is losing forests because of cocoa farming, firewood harvesting, mining and logging.
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The debate about pesticides often gets polarised, pitching farmers against consumers.
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Humans and animals can hide from extreme heat. But plants have no escape. To protect our crops from the heat to come will likely mean modifying them.
Contract farm workers harvest grapes in the coastal region of the Western Cape of South Africa.
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The study provides reason for optimism about the effects of minimum wage policies on poverty.
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Whether true or not, the UK’s political parties have failed to quash the perception that they prioritise cities.
Tundra swans migrating from southern China to the high Arctic.
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As climate change threatens their food supply, migratory birds may find help in an unlikely place.
Mechanisation can help eliminate the laborious tasks involved in smallholder rice farming.
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Through collaboration and resource sharing, smallholder rice farmers can enhance their productivity and achieve a fully mechanised farming system.
Pumpjacks draw oil out of the ground as a deer stands in a canola field near Olds, Alta., in July 2020. Standard agricultural systems in Canada and around the world achieve high yields, but at times at great ecological costs. Agroecology aims to address these issues.
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Agroecology could be an effective way to address food insecurity and respond to the climate crisis. However, significant hurdles remain.
Dig into soil and you’ll find rock dust but also thousands of living species.
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Rock dust is only part of the story of soil. Living creatures, many of them too tiny to see, keep that soil healthy for growing everything from food to forests.
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NZ’s sheep industry could be one of the biggest losers with the rise of alternative proteins. Once profitable industries will need to be ready to pivot away from animal-based products.
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We’ve known about dryland salinity for a century. But while we’ve made progress, the problem hasn’t yet been solved.
Dairy cows try and stay dry in their barn as flood waters rise near Agassiz, B.C., in November 2021.
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Despite improvements in disaster response management since the Abbotsford floods of 2021, long-term animal welfare remains woefully underappreciated in B.C.
Tractors are lined up as part of a protest by farmers in Prague, Czech Republic.
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Green subsidy reforms are alienating farmers reeling from sky-high production costs.
Cattle are major producers of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
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Cattle are major producers of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. But there are methods that can reduce their climate impact – if ranchers have incentive to use them.
Regenerative agricultural strategies can reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from food production, restore local ecosystems and enhance community well-being.
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In the face of growing social and environmental challenges, organizations in the food and agriculture sector are increasingly turning to nature for inspiration.
A farmer paddles to his fields on an artificial island among canals, part of an ancient Aztec system known as chinampas, in 2021.
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Agricultural sustainability is as much about power and sovereignty as it is about soil, water and crops.
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Human health depends on having a liveable planet and this is inextricably linked to food systems.
Nano-enabled pesticides may be efficient but could be hazardous to the surrounding environment beyond target crop pests.
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Nano-enabled pesticides could pose huge risks and they aren’t being regulated effectively enough yet.
Dairy cows are prone to getting udder infections.
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Kenya’s smallholder farmers aren’t using antibiotics properly, some are of poor quality and some antibiotics are being found in milk.
Cotton in bloom in Oklahoma.
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Cotton is one of the world’s largest crops and is harvested with large, heavy machines. Robotic harvesting could yield higher-quality cotton with less damage to plants and soil.